The final workshop of the AHRC Conferencing the International Project took place on the (very warm) afternoon of 5th July 2018 in Methodist Central Hall in the heart of Westminster. The workshop brought together sixteen academics, civil servants and representatives from charities and political organisations to discuss what makes a city, and specifically the city …

Not only were conferences key spaces where the world order was redesigned in the wake of the World War I – where new borders were drawn and states created – but they were held in towns, cities, and regions that were themselves materially transformed by the increasing intensity and scale of conference events. Large imperial centres …

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This blog promotes discussion of topics related to the project ‘Conferencing the International: A Cultural and Historical Geography of the Origins of Internationalism, 1919-1939’.
This is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, runs between August 2015 and August 2019, and provides an in-depth cultural and historical account of a selection of key international interwar conferences, namely the he Round Table Conferences, the Pan-African Congresses, and the International Studies conferences organised by the League of Nations' International Committee of Intellectual Cooperation (ICIC).
This blog explores the major themes of the research, provides reviews of our related internationalism reading group, and features updates on our research activities including archival visits.